YMCA, later Hibernian Club
76 Ryrie Street, GEELONG VIC 3220 - Property No 217547
Geelong Commercial Heritage Area
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Statement of Significance
B Listed - Regional Significance
Historically, on a site rich in successive layers of Geelong's church-based benevolent movements, the building itself retains evidence of the latter development periods, each inter-contributory but the YMCA being the most obvious.
Architecturally, the upper facade is a near complete example of Renaissance revival commercial architecture and provides a context for the later but similar examples to the east, with their more mannered detailing on the same trabeated base.
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YMCA, later Hibernian Club - Physical Description 1
Shown in 1917 panorama as the Strand Picture Theatre, the components of the building are revealed from the aerial viewpoint. The two shops materialize as raised monitor roofs giving light to the ground floor below while the high gabled roof of the hall rises behind as a separate building. The street verandah is also shown with an arch at the hall entrance point.
Today the three-part brick (painted) and cemented facade, with its raised arched entablature, provide the major period expression of the building viewed in the street at eye-level. Under the new canopy, 72 Ryrie Street has retained its shopfront providing a guide to what 76 looked like and, with its stout six-panel door pair, an indication of the entrance doors which once opened to the hall behind (74).
Facade ornament includes the parapet entablature, guilloche-pattern balustrading and rusticated pilasters with pedimented tops which divide the facade. A central pediment, at first-floor level further marks the hall entrance over the former verandah arch.
Inside most of the two shop interiors have been replaced or obscured while an Edwardian staircase perhaps marks the conversion of the hall for the Sun Cinema. Otherwise some decorative plaster survives in the upper level of the hall behind.
Heritage Study and Grading
Greater Geelong - Geelong Region Historic Buildings and Objects Study
Author: Allan Willingham
Year: 1986
Grading: BGreater Geelong - Geelong City Urban Conservation Study, Volumes 2-5
Author: Graeme Butler
Year: 1991
Grading: BGreater Geelong - Geelong City Urban Conservation Study Volume 1
Author: Graeme Butler
Year: 1993
Grading: BGreater Geelong - Geelong City Urban Conservation Study, Volume 4(a)
Author: Helen Lardner
Year: 1995
Grading: B
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FORMER GEELONG WOOL EXCHANGEVictorian Heritage Register H0622
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FORMER SCOTTISH CHIEFS HOTELVictorian Heritage Register H0662
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GEELONG TOWN HALLVictorian Heritage Register H0184
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